Is it really going to happen?

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7 nukes in U.S.,warns al-Qaida
Man claiming to be top bin Laden operative threatens to kill millions, destroy economy

WorldNetDaily.com
November 14, 2002
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Terrorists have placed seven nuclear bombs in as many U.S. cities and will soon detonate them, causing millions of casualties, massive panic and destroying the world's biggest economy, warns a top al-Qaida operative in an interview with Al-Jazeera television in Qatar. While much of the world's attention has been riveted on Al-Jazeera's
broadcast of an audiotape apparently made by Osama bin Laden, this more specific threat aired on the station has received scant media coverage. Th! e spectacular threats were made by a man claiming to be Mohammed
al-Usuquf, reputedly al-Qaida's No. 3 operative. Al-Usuquf is said to be a doctor in physics who holds a master's degree in international economics.

A copy of the interview was sent to the prestigious Arab-language daily Al Quds Al Arabi, edited in London, but it was not printed. Parts of the interview were published by Asia Times, which could confirm neither the identity of the man nor his membership in al-Qaida. Al-Usuquf says al-Qaida's Kuwaiti spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and bin Laden himself, suggested that he grant the interview. Bin Laden, he says, is "alive and healthy, along with his commanders Mohamme! d Atef, Khalid Shaik Mohammed and Mullah Omar." While Al-Usuquf begins the interview by criticizing Washington for its positions on the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian cause and for its "financial greed," he concludes by saying America must be destroyed. "Aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and spy satellites will be worthless in the next war," he says.

Al-Qaida has 5,000 first-rank operatives and around 20,000 others all over the world. "We have more than 500 first-rank and 800 second-rank [operatives] inside the U.S.," he says. He explains that "first rank" means they have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, most of them married with children. "They have an idea about the plans, and they are just waiting for a call." "Second-rank" operatives arrived in the past five years and "have no idea about the plans," he says. All are willing to die for the cause, he says. Sept. 11 "was just the beginning," says al-Usuquf. "It was a way to call the world's attention to what's going to happen." He details a plan to destroy the U.S. by "attacking the heart of what they (Americans) consider the most importa! nt thing in the world - money."

This economic cataclysm will be prompted, he says, by "destroying America's seven largest cities and some other measures" with "atomic bombs." The bombs "won't be launched," he says. "They are already there. Seven nuclear heads have already been positioned on American soil, before Sept. 11, and they are ready to be detonated. Before Sept. 11, American security was a fiasco, and even later, if we needed, we could position the bombs there. They arrived through seaports as normal cargo. A nuclear head is not bigger than a fridge, so it can easily be camouflaged as one. Thousands of containers arrive at a seaport every day, and even with very efficient security, it's impossible to check and examine each one ! of them." Al-Usuquf says the bombs were bought on the black market – five from the former USSR and two from Pakistan.

The five Russian heads "are from T-3 missiles, also known as RD-107, and their power is around 100 kilotons each. That is five times the Hiroshima bomb. The Pakistani ones are less powerful, something around 10 kilotons each." Each of the Russian bombs would have cost around $200 million, claims Al-Ususquf. Al-Qaida was able to raise the money "because we have many sponsors. Many countries sponsor us, and also some very rich people."Not all of the sponsoring nations are Arab countries, he says. "Some European countries as well are interested in the fall of the U.S." As to the "rich people," they are "people who are also tired of seeing the U.S. bleeding the rest of the world." Iraq's Saddam Hussein, says Al-Usuquf, is not one of these people, "but just a collaborator, represented by Abdul Tawab Hawaish, his vice prime minister and responsible for Iraq's arms program." Al-Usuquf says that the bombs cannot be detected by U.S. authorities.

"Even if they are old, they were modernized and are very well hidden," he told Al-Jazeera. "Even if they were located, they have auto-detonation mechanisms in case something or someone gets close. Even an electromagnetic pulse is not capable of deactivating them." The bombs allegedly cannot be detected because "they are enveloped in thick layers of lead." They could be detonated "by various methods - cellphone call, radio frequency, seismic shock or by their regressive clock." Al-Usuquf details the whole plan in the Al-Jazeera interview. "First, one head would be detonated, which would cause the deaths of 800,000 to 1 million people and a chaos nev! er seen before," he said. "During this chaos, two or three planes, which are now disassembled inside barns near empty roads in the U.S. countryside, would take off in suicide missions to pulverize another two or three big American cities with chemicals.

Once the disease was identified, all seaports and airports would be quarantined. Land borders would also be closed. No plane, boat or car would enter or leave the U.S. This would be total chaos." The first target would be the city "that would offer the best conditions, for example bright sky and winds of eight or more miles an hour blowing toward the center of the country, so radioactive dust can contaminate the largest possible area." This attack would not knock out the U.S, recognizes al-Usuquf. "But the process would be initiated," he explains. "As with the World Trade Center, it would be just a question of time for the whole economic structure to be turned to dust. If the objectives are reached with one bomb and diseases, probably we will save the lives of other people, but it's risky, and probably six more bombs will be detonated, one a week, and more attacks with chemical weapons will be launched." According to estimates made by al-Usuquf and Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No. 2 man and a physician, about 15 million people would! die, victims of the bombs and the radiation. Among those contaminated by diseases, "25 percent will die, a figure around more than 5 million, plus many others due to the chaos and disorder." But the real cost will be the American economy, says al-Usuquf. The world economy would not collapse, says al-Usuquf, although "in the beginning, it will be very difficult. But without the U.S., the world will soon rise in a more just and fraternal manner. Nothing can stop the plan." And whatever America does, "it's too late." Al-Usuquf refused to give any indication as to when the attacks would begin.

Answer 1

That fairy tale is three and a half years old.... what the hell are they waiting for? I think that if they had the ability, they would have done it by now. Most annalists who know as much as anyone think that Al Qaida pretty much shot their wad on Sept. 11th I personally will not lose any sleep over it.

Answer 2

Well, the whole article is a bit much. You could have just given us a link.

First of all, how long has al-Queda been threatening the U.S? How many major attacks have there been?

Don't forget that these men are TERRORISTS. How do they operate? Well, through fear. People fear the unknown. If they strike fear into their enemies, they've won half the battle. Then they can sit back and watch their enemies tear each other apart trying to protect themselves from something that may or may not happen.

Answer 3

I don't know the answer to whether he is being truthful or not, but my question is, if this story was written in 2002, why haven't they used them yet? You mean they have been sitting on these things for 4 years? All I know is that whatever happens, God is still on the throne, I am saved by the blood of Christ, and will be in Heaven a millisecond after I breathe my last.

Answer 4

I checked out worldnetdaily.com for the date you gave -- 11-14-2002. I could not find the headline. Maybe you could give me the first sentence of the headling or maybe your date is not correct. I'd like to see this article.

Answer 5

Sounds like a bunch of bullshit. I'm pretty sure even osma realizes if he uses weapons of mass destruction against us we will nuke the **** outta Mecca and he and all his Muslim buddies will have to bow down to a glass parking lot!

Answer 6

They will say anything, true or not, they know will cause fear in the heart of the infidel.

But they're NOT kidding when they call for global "Jihad" to conquer the world.

Answer 7

As you show, that was written in 2002. Hasn't happened yet. Not that it wouldn't----------but it hasn't yet.

When they locked down bin Laden's 300 millions dollars, it slowed his offense alot.

Answer 8

What? Bullcrap man, If this were to possibly be happening we would have mass media coverage and wide spread panic by now.

Answer 9

Ummmm, dude, try to summarize your post and maybe more people will take the time to read it.

Answer 10

Stop writing books instead of questions. No one is going to read that crap.